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RCMP Sergeant Booker Kennison knows more dirt than an officer should and has been exiled by his superiors to duty in Yellowknife. When a flash fire claims the lives of two archaeologists at a dig on remote Victory Island in Nunavut, Kennison is dispatched to investigate in a cold wilderness where winter's grip and 24-hour darkness are closing in fast.
Ruby Cruz, ex-FBI agent, is also on her way north, sent to protect the interests of the American corporation that funded the dig. Those interests include Dr. Karl Kniesser and a 160-year-old journal he has secretly cut from the clothing of a frozen corpse. The journal contains the secrets of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition and may hold the key to controlling the Northwest Passage today. But when Ruby arrives, she finds Kniesser dead and the prized journal missing.
As the ice moves in and supplies grow scarce, Kennison confirms that the two deaths are murders, and the hunt for their killer begins -- until Kennison himself becomes a target of a secretive assassin lurking in the barren landscape. Threatened from all sides, Kennison must solve two mysteries before time and light run out.
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Dennis Richard Murphy was a successful film and television writer, director, producer and teacher whose documentary series appeared in 70 countries in 33 languages. His short stories were published inEllery Queen'sandAlfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazinesas well as in several anthologies, and in 2007 he won the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story. Sadly, Dennis Richard Murphy passed away in June 2008, shortly after completingDarkness at the Break of Noon.
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